Coastal walks and small-boat sailing
Notes from weekends on the coast: tide tables, short sails in a borrowed dinghy and long walks when the wind is too strong.
Learning to read tide tables
Tide tables looked like random numbers at first. They became simple once I learned to read just two columns.
What goes in my day bag
A good coastal day depends more on the bag than on the weather forecast.
My first solo sail
After a summer of lessons I finally took the dinghy out alone. It was shorter and calmer than I had imagined.